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Residential Life and Housing Collection, 1898-2004

0.63 Linear Feet
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This collection consists of materials from the Barnard Residential Life & Housing Office.
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Coalition to Save City & Suburban Housing records, 1984-1996

3 document boxes
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This collection includes correspondence, research, and legal papers related to the operations of the Coalition to Save City and Suburban Housing, Inc., the complex's tenants, community activists, and their joint efforts to obtain a designation of the complex as a New York City landmark.

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Construction of airplane hangar and workers' housing / Hugh Ferriss, 1945

5 drawings
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The drawings are of the construction of an airplane hanger, as part of WWII war effots.

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Bookdealers and Auction House Catalogs

10,000 Volumes
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Catalogs issued by the principal book dealers and book auctions houses. Catalogs, that were received both via the Acquisitions department and from dealers directly, are largely from New York dealers, but also include other US, British and European firms.This collection spans the 20th century with some 19th century issues. Cataloged individually in CLIO in early 2000s with prefix SALECAT The 21st century catalogs are no longer individually cataloged. Selected titles are kept, arranged and described as an archival collection of the same name (Bib ID: 15329754) in paper or electronic versions.

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David F.M. Todd papers on the AIA National Housing Committee, 1969-1976

2 manuscript boxes
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The collection consists of correspondence, reports, and studies from American Institute of Architects Housing Task Forces spearheaded by David F.M. Todd. The collection illustrates the role of AIA in affecting policy development and implementation at the federal level.

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Christodora House Records, 1897-1991

12.5 linear feet
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Organizational records of Christodora House, a settlement house and social services provider on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The bulk of the records are administrative. These records include minutes and annual reports of the Christodora House Board of Directors, dating from the organization's founding in 1897, as well as documentation of its funding sources and organizational history. There are also records of clubs run by Christodora House, the bulk of which date from circa 1900 through the 1930s, and photographs and scrapbooks, circa 1900 through 1960.

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Random House records, 1925-1999

702 linear feet
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The collection consists of the editorial and production archives of Random House, Inc. from its founding in 1925 to the 1990s. The correspondence and editorial files include many of the prominent novelists and short story writers from 20th-century American and European literature: Saul Bellow; Erskine Caldwell; Truman Capote; William Faulkner; Sinclair Lewis; André Malraux; Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder. Among the poets there are files for W. H. Auden; Allen Ginsberg; Robinson Jeffers; Robert Lowell; and Stephen Spender. In the area of theater there are files for Maxwell Anderson; Moss Hart; Lillian Hellman; Eugene O'Neill; and Tennessee Williams. Random House transacted business with many fine presses and noted typographers and the archives contain files for Nonesuch Press, Grabhorn Press and Golden Cockerel Press, as wll as for Bruce Rogers, Valenti Angelo, and Edwin, Jane, and Robert Grabhorn.

Community Service Society records, 1842-1995

423 linear feet
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Correspondence, reports, memoranda, case records, photographs and printed material. The archive include central and district administrative records; cammittee correspondence and minutes; and files on the various programs--such as sheltered workshops, tuberculosis sanitariums and health centers, public baths and employment bureaus--run by the two organizations. The archive also contains hundreds of photographs, including works by Lewis Hine and Jessie Tarbox Beals; extensive casework files from the beginning of social work (originally referred to as "friendly visiting among the poor"); and copies of masters and doctoral theses from the New York School of Sociel Work and other schools. Much of the research for these theses was based on the CSS files

Random House dictionary records, 1947-1970

176 boxes
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Note, etymology, and cross reference cards, computer print-outs, page proofs, computer tapes, and bound typescripts. The published dictionaries included in the collection are the AMERICAN COLLEGE DICTIONARY (New York, 1947); the RANDOM HOUSE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (New York, 1966), including the "concise dictionaries" of Spanish, German, French, and Italian; and the RANDOM HOUSE COLLEGE DICTIONARY (New York, 1973). Also, materials relating to the compilation and publication of music, Russian/English, school and junior dictionaries.

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East Side House records, 1851-1992

18 linear feet
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The records include addresses, annual reports, correspondence, memos, minutes, program files, newsclippings, administrative records, photographs, video tape, and film. They include material dating from the decades prior to the establishment of the settlement which shed light on the philosophy and motivation of its founders, and offer a unique view of the first wave of the settlement house movement in America. The records document social conditions, demographic change, political activity and philanthropy in New York City. Addresses by East Side House founder Everett P. Wheeler, included in Series I, document his family history and career as a lawyer and civic reformer prior to the founding of East Side House. Wheeler's correspondence details his role in establishing the settlement and managing it during its first decades.

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